St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

there will be less than Wonted viyacity
in social circles, but the ruStler, the
typical Fargoan will move with less
stately stepping and more measured
tread than when the business atmosphere
was more generously permeated with the
ozone of prosperity. Fargo jumped
from the cradle rocked by the departing
aborigine to athletic adolescence with a
bound. Its boom took it from the stray
Cling village to the hum of the live
metropolis. It's men of affairs dreamed
dreams and saw visiOns-they saw no
limits to the marvellous eXpansion-they
hniIded for the future and the future
was taken with financial cramps
some of the balloons came
down when dollar wheat became
a Renaissance. A good many people
who had planned to devote their quiet
period of life to clipping coupons from
stocks of various magnificent enter
prises, found themselves fortunate if
they were able to gather few frag-
ments from wrecks. In word Fargo
went down to hard pan four or five
wears ago. 1t has taken some time to
clear away the debris and get
on the up grade again-the perverSe
humility of the wheat market has re-
tarded the forward movement. In the
estimation of many, chunks of moral
and bibulOuS reform have clOgged the
wheels of commercial activity to some
extent, and required time for a new
alignment of the business forces. But
the men who have never allowed their
faith to cease to glow and have meas
ured the arc from horizon to zenith,
will vet take rank with the faithful land
the ark of the covenant shall go down
the ages before them, and the DOMAINS
scintiIlate their fame. Fargo may have
STOOD STILL A LITTLE WHILE,
as the sun did when Joshua needed to
stretch out daylight for the completion
of his missionary work, but its light is
not dimmed, and there is no retrograde
step. On the Quietude of the few past
wears, it has been girding up its loins
and gathering new strength for the UNI
folding of its opportunities. The met
ropoliS of the Red, as its deniZeDs find
satisfaction in terming it, comes out OF
the year 1887 in better trim than it
entered it. The catalogue of its new
edifces is not formidable one,
but has points worth noting. There
has been a handsome accession to the bet
ter class of residences in sections where
men of means build houses. An artist
cally devised and complete in all its APP
DUlHblLCHlSs ~AONfNtO
now only lacks the internal equipment
to invite the perlpatetic pilgrim to luxu-
rious content; the largest and
most complete newspaper structure
in the territory has had the
finishing touches put upon 1t
during the year. Various specifica-
lions in this connection might be made
but the best index to the work of the
year has not been afforded by the arti-
ficer OF stately piles of brick or the
architect in wood. Look at the accre-
tons of the banks; one of the five alone
shows deposits of $500, 000-fgureS
vastly in excess of former years. This
indicates great increase in business
and commercial extension. 1t means
that the arteries of traffic reach
ing to Fargo are growing and null
tiplying. 1t is becoming the financial
center of the North and the distribut-
ing point for vastrealm. The Standard
Oil company, as one instance, has the
past year made it the supply depot for
its traffic with the immense regions
north and west. Nearly all the ma
chinery works that supply the pro-
ducers have made Fargo their distribut-
ing point, and the number of them is
rapidly growing. Its wholesale busi-
ness has swollen to much larger proper
tions than i'm former years, and is fol-
lowing new lines of railroad as fast as
they are opened.
FARGO HAS RAILROAD TRACKS
leading out of it in eight different direc-
tions-one of them being ironed but not
yet in operation, having been completed
recently. The past year the Congrega-
tional college has been located here and
partially put in operation. 1t has the
promise of becoming one Of the fore
most educational Institutions of the